CoggyMcFee
@CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
- Comment on Pdf partee 1 week ago:
While I agree about reclaiming the word, what OP is talking about is not what a reclaimed word accomplishes. A reclaimed word is about empowerment within the group. OP is talking about selling the concept to the public at large.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 week ago:
You’re saying that trying to motivate people positively to move on from meat is “push the blame away” behavior. But I think tut-tutting individuals who eat meat is pushing the blame away.
While there are some people who believe that eating meat is an absolute moral wrong, a lot of people who feel eating meat is immoral because of what the meat industry does, both to the animals and to the planet. Five thousand years ago, people eating meat didn’t support the meat industry and all its wrongs.
So considering it to be pathetic to try to effect real reduction in people’s meat consumption because the methods shift blame away from the individual meat eater seems really ironic to me, as well as completely counterproductive.
- Comment on Trust issues 2 weeks ago:
I’m very suspicious of what you guys are saying but don’t want to check
- Comment on What side do you open a banana from? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is this a 16th-century smartphone? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Oh the wonders of technology 4 weeks ago:
They all played music but they didn’t serve the same purpose, thus why I had all three. The CD player was for listening in my room, the boombox could be brought anywhere, and the Walkman was for privately listening on the go.
- Comment on How did overalls and jumpsuits went from male work clothe to female fashion without becoming "male fashion" ? 1 month ago:
In the latter half of the 90s it was popular with young people in general
- Comment on WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing" 3 months ago:
Honestly, if they said only that part in a memo, it would still obviously be very bad but it would be so much better than embedding it within this video. If I were an employee watching this, when they reached the part where they play Iko Iko while people dance after the CEO delivered the ultimatum, I’d want to shoot myself in the fucking head.
- Comment on Another great advert from Threads. Not really looking like my kind of place. 4 months ago:
It’s comments like this that make me think of the old adage: “Never wrestle with a pig because you’ll both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
- Comment on Jragon 5 months ago:
Seems like you’re just hand-waving the arguments against it, instead of considering what life would be like. There would be virtually no benefit but definite annoyances.
- Comment on Jragon 5 months ago:
You are definitely underthinking it
- Comment on Jragon 5 months ago:
With time zones, if it’s 10am where you are and you need to talk to someone somewhere else in the world, you look up their time zone and see what time it is there, and you know if it’s 3pm that they are probably still at work, and if it’s 1am there then they are sleeping, and so on.
If you don’t have time zones and you just know it’s also 10am there, what do you look up to quickly know whether they are likely working, eating, sleeping in that locution? Do you look up when sunset is in that city and then check its latitude and the time of year so you can estimate where they probably are in their day?
- Comment on Jragon 5 months ago:
You don’t see an inconvenience living in a place where a restaurant’s hours are
Wed 9pm - Thu 7am Thu 9pm - Fri 6am Fri 9pm - Sat 9am
And it seems perfectly fine to have it be ambiguous when you say something is tomorrow if you mean after lunch or after you sleep?
You can’t think of any clerical, banking, or technical inconveniences with having things carry over into the next day in the middle of the day?
- Comment on Jragon 5 months ago:
Plus a bunch of people would have the day turn over into the next day in the middle of the work day, which would be pretty inconvenient.
- Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? 5 months ago:
Well in this case the instructions specifically say to avoid those kinds of questions.
- Comment on US Question. Will the people that have to wait until 70 to get Social Security ever get what they paid in to it back out before they die since men's life expectancy is only 77 now? 5 months ago:
My dad waited until 70, and then by age 72 began a severe decline in health which eventually saw him homebound with a feeding tube, only leaving the house for doc appts or trips to the ER. I am quite certain if he had a do-over he would have retired earlier and enjoyed his 60s instead of working at his boring job.
I think if you reach 62 and you’re gainfully employed and truly enjoy what you do, there’s nothing wrong with holding out for more benefits. But if you are able to retire earlier, I can’t recommend continuing to spend your days doing work you don’t enjoy because “what’s 8 more years”. Those 8 years could be your big chance to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
- Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. 5 months ago:
Soccer friends are affected by temperature, weather, state of grass, wind, etc. too. So are football and baseball fields. Baseball fields are all unique. Cricket fields are round.
That said, there are obstacles in those identical rectangles. But unlike golf, these obstacles can move and think! They are called opponents and believe it or not, they can often be more dynamic than a tree or pond!
- Comment on What does .: come from / what does it mean? 6 months ago:
z.B. = e.g.
d.h. = i.e.
- Comment on Nice 6 months ago:
- Comment on Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from? 6 months ago:
Using the period with titles is standard in the US and leaving out the period is standard in the UK.
- Comment on When the pizza party is too expensive, you go with the EncourageMint 7 months ago:
Sure, maybe it’s a legit question, but it’s equally (or possibly more) likely to be a troll who wants to have an argument about computer OSes. If the person who said “why mac?” is truly asking a good-faith question like you are positing, they could have put more than two words of effort into the question so that whoever responds doesn’t have to make a huge guess as to their intentions.
- Comment on Chevy Chase Bashes ‘Community’: “The Show Wasn’t Funny Enough” 7 months ago:
You’re not a fan of being aware of social inequalities?
- Comment on What movie had a trailer that was totally misleading about the premise of the film? 8 months ago:
Austin Powers did not come from SNL sketches. It was created by an SNL alum, but that’s all.